[SlugBug] 4[in]04 - Access Space Fourth Birthday

[Bill Best]

hi

there's a do on at Access Space (http://www.lowtech.org) next saturday 
and that ker-azee film "Revolution OS" (http://www.revolution-os.com/) 
is going to be screened at 6pm.

lotsa fun free software stuff happening throughout the day too.

bb

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4[in]04 -- ACCESS SPACE'S FOURTH BIRTHDAY
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In April 2004 Sheffield's ground-breaking free technology lab ACCESS
SPACE is four years old. To celebrate, Access Space is running a special
open workshop day, mounting three simultaneous exhibitions, and throwing
a party. Everyone's invited!

LISTEN
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>>> Performances & Party!
>>> 8-Late Saturday 24th April, Sheffield Independent Film

Email 4in04 at lowtech.org to book free tickets.
The party features some of the UK's leading exponents of no- and
low-cost digital music and media, including:--

>From BIRMINGHAM: Brian Duffy's MODIFIED TOY ORCHESTRA. Brian Duffy
rewires boot-sale audio electronics like "Speak-and-Spell" and "Hula
Barbie" to release a massive industrial noise-scape.

>From NEWCASTLE: SPOONBENDER conjures electronic beats from two Gameboys
and a Kaoss Pad using "LSDJ".

>From BARNSLEY via LONDON: Artist, Musician and Programmer Tom Betts,
a/k/a NULLPOINTER  "Pure Data" for live audio and video generation.

>From SHEFFIELD: Experimental techno sounds by MATTHEW GRAY, working with
home-hacked live audio software, chopping familiar sounds into wonky new
forms.

Venue: Sheffield Independent Film, 5 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS
Time: 24th April, 20:00-00:00
Contact: 0114 2495522, 4in04 at lowtech.org

LEARN
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>>> Open Workshop Day, 24th April, 12:00-18:00, Access Space

All of the software in use at Access Space is absolutely free. Why
doesn't everyone use it? Because they don't know how. Before the party
Access Space shows you how to get involved in the no-cost software
revolution with a series of presentations and workshops and film
screenings from midday.

GImP - Powerful image processing software.
Processing - A simple language to author complex dynamic Java graphics.
ImageMagick - Warp, distort, overlay and reprocess hundreds of images at
once.
Pure Data - Generates sounds and video in real time.

Venue: Access Space, 1 Sidney Street, Sheffield S1 4RG
Time: 24th April, 12:00-18:00,
Contact: 0114 2495522, 4in04 at lowtech.org

Film Screening: REVOLUTION O/S

In association with Sheffield IndyMedia we will be screening this
entertaining and informative overview of the free software scene.

Venue: Sheffield Independent Film, 5 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS
Time: 24th April, 18:00-20:00
Contact: 0114 2495522, 4in04 at lowtech.org

LOOK
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>>> Exhibitions at and near Access Space, 19th April - 12th May

REDUNDANT TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE: "Lowtech Videowall".

Shown several times in Europe and twice in London, for the first time
RTI bring this high-profile artwork to their home city. Who says you
can't do video streaming with 37 trash computers?

Dates: 20th April-30th April (19th April: See the build & meet RTI)
Venue: Persistence Works, Brown Street, Sheffield S1.2BS
Open: Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 2:30pm-4:30pm
Contact: 0114 2495522, 4in04 at lowtech.org

GATESCHERRYWOLMARK: "Intersections"

Digital images and text from the ongoing collaboration of artists
Eleanor Gates and Jean Cherry with writer Jenny Wolmark. Including
scrawled text and intricate textiles, supermarket shopping and Hong Kong
streets, the pictures combine the exotic with the banal.

Dates: 20th April - 12th May
Venue: Access Space, 1 Sidney Street, Sheffield S1 4RG
Open: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-7pm
Contact: 0114 2495522, 4in04 at lowtech.org

RICHARD BOLAM: "Hyperscape2"

Sheffield-based technological artist and mac guru Richard Bolam creates
an immersive generative soundscape with those cute, but obsolete baby
Macs everyone binned last year. The piece explores the fluid
relationship between order, chaos and human perception.

Dates: 19th April - 7th May
Venue: The Workstation, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX -
Open: Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm
Contact: 0114 2495522, 4in04 at lowtech.org